LCG Introduction John Gordon, STFC GDB September 9th 2009
LCG Since the Previous Meeting STEP09 Post-Mortem, 9-10 July LHC OPN, Vancouver August 31 Initial EGI Council Meeting, Amsterdam, 9 th July EGI Proposal SSC Formation EMI Collaboration Board EGI-DS Management Board 2
LCG GDB meetings in 2009 Second Wednesday of each month Last month we established that GDB could start at 0900, but agenda did not justify this month 3
LCG Pre-GDB meetings
LCG Forthcoming Events EGEE09, Barcelona, September th 2009 –EGI Council, SSC meeting, EMI CB ATLAS Jamboree, CERN October 13th HEPiX Fall Meeting, NERSC, Berkeley, October SC’09, Portland, Oregon, November th
LCG GDB Issues Pilot Jobs, SCAS, gLExec CREAM SL5 EGI Virtualisation 6
LCG Main Topics Today SL5 for WN : follow-up from previous GDB and decision CREAM LHC OPN Experiment Operations Virtualisation
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EGI Timeline 2nd of June - The deadline for MoU comments (updated) 9th of June - The final MoU will be published 12th of June - deadline for comments on "Governance issues" document. 19th of June - Draft EGI.eu Convention and Statuses available 1st of July - deadline for MoU signatures (23 have signed) 9th of July - EGI Council initial meeting in Amsterdam August/September - EGI.eu Convention and Statutes approved 1st October - Financial contributions to EGI Collaboration due (invoiced) Oct deadline for legal creation of EGI.eu by which time legal documents must be agreed by NGI legal authorities. From J. Knobloch
LCG EGI Interim Director and team proposing to Council:- Bidding for Global Tasks (received) Estimates of International tasks (received) Outline proposals for FP7 calls. EGI – Core proposal + Services for Heavy Users EMI – gLite+ARC+Unicore SSC(s) – ROSCOE including HEP 10
LCG Other News LHC Schedule –Further slippage until November –Energy ? Scrutiny Group and Requirements –Agreed with Scrutiny Group and LHCC –Requirements – –Check with experiments –2009 Pledges to be in place by end of September –Freeze environment at end of September for a stable testing period before data. 11